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...to approve the funding will be the United States Congress. The approval will come before the House and Senateappropriationscommittees, where it will be considered by the House Subcommittee on Energy, Water Development, and Related Agencies...

JUNEAU (AP) - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has retained her spot on the SenateAppropriationsCommittee, while incoming senator Dan Sullivan was assigned to several committees he had hoped to land.Senate Republicans announced committee...

...at an Anchorage restaurant on election night only steels her resolve.Murkowski also sits on the powerful SenateAppropriationsCommittee and will directly control Jewell's budget."Sally Jewell is probably looking at the outcome tonight with...

...longer-serving members. He serves with Alaska's senior senator, Republican Lisa Murkowski, on the SenateAppropriationsCommittee. Begich noted that no state has ever had two members from the same party on that committee at the same time...

...Lisa Murkowski said Eielson Air Force Base is the best home for them. Her comment came Wednesday at a SenateAppropriationsCommittee subcommittee hearing and is notable because Air Force officials in February placed two Alaska bases -Eielson...

...that was in line to be cut by NOAA's proposed budget (for $65 million total). On April 24, the full SenateAppropriationsCommittee approved the Commerce Department budget with language inserted by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen...

...plane and survived, were fishing companions and longtime Washington colleagues who worked together on the SenateAppropriationsCommittee led by the GOP lawmaker. Stevens became a mentor to him. Phillips and Jim Morhard, who survived the crash...

...depends largely on the recommendations of high-ranking congressional staffers. Nine people who work for the SenateAppropriationsCommittee chaired by Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens came to Kenai and Soldotna Thursday on a whirlwind tour of projects...

...their election-year bout with President Bush over the issue. The 16-13 vote by the Republican-run SenateAppropriationsCommittee came less than a week after the GOP-led House embarrassed Bush by approving a similar measure. Despite...

...others because they had alternative quarters, albeit cramped ones. Stevens, as the ranking member of the SenateAppropriationsCommittee, has a two-room office on the first floor of the Capitol Building. Murkowski, a relatively senior senator...